Brown added that he would sit down with university president Bill Powers and new athletic director Steve Patterson soon and discuss the future and that he was looking forward to the meeting.

He was asked about the possibility of coaching his final game at Texas and didn’t bite.

“I said we wouldn’t talk about me and the future,” Brown said.

It has been rumored, speculated and reported since since the Longhorns dropped two in a row to BYU and Ole Miss early in the season that Brown’s days in Austin were numbered. The talk picked up this week with reports that Brown was expected to step down by the end of this week.

If the Texas position opens, focus turns to which coach steps into the biggest job in college football.

Alabama coach Nick Saban has been the center of discussion since it was reported in September that his agent, Jimmy Sexton, met with a current and former Texas regent after the Crimson Tide won last season’s BCS championship.

Paul Finebaum of ESPN.com reported Wednesday that Alabama has offered Saban a contract extension, but it's been on Saban's desk since Friday. But to Saban's defense, he's been recruiting. He was in New Orleans and Beaumont, Texas, on Wednesday recruiting a pair of 5-star players.

Saban has repeatedly denied interest in the Texas job, in large part because there hasn’t been an opening to discuss.

In November he told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi: “Well, I don’t know where these reports come from. I’ve sort of addressed the situation before. I’m totally committed to the University of Alabama, looking forward to the game we have this week and all my focus has been on LSU and what our teams need to do play their best.”

In September after the report of Sexton’s meeting surfaced, Saban said, “Every year it’s something. Last year, it was the Cleveland Browns. The year before it was something else, going back to the NFL. But (wife) Terry and I are very happy here in Tuscaloosa. We really love the University of Alabama.”

Alabama’s streak of two consecutive BCS championships ended this season. Still, he’s led the Crimson Tide to three of the past four BCS titles and this year’s team lost just one game — on one of college football’s greatest finishes — this season to Auburn and finished third in the BCS.